What's New? | KeyStep Pro - Firmware 2.5
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- This significant update delivers useful new features and long-awaited enhancements, free for existing KeyStep Pro users. Take your sound further, customize key settings and perform with confidence.
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KeyStep Pro Firmware Update 2.5 → bit.ly/47LoF1E
KeyStep Pro Chroma → bit.ly/47LfZZ8
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Hi ... Still no ratcheting. ?!
Yes! please implement ratchets!!
I guess there aren’t enough people out there that need that feature from this device
It’s likely because arturia still want people to buy the BsP
The latching transpose is a very welcome addition. I don't personally need the program changes, but I'm glad to see you're adding new features in several areas. Keep it up!
A couple of welcome features. However, KSP is still missing ratchet play/record and Mod/PB strip record. Scene chaining, track layering, more octaves, sustain pedal release duration would also be welcome.
+ option for separate midi channels for drum voices!
Very welcome update! Especially the per track settings including Program Changes per pattern 😊 Hopefully the release of the Chroma edition will regain interest for the KSP and we’ll see more nice updates for the Original and Black editions, too 👍🏻
This is a beautiful piece of product design. Good job Arturia!
Pas encore essayé la maj2.5... mais le programme change était indispensable pour du live!!! C'est top Merci❤ j'attendais que ça... je ne m'en servais plus à cause de ça !!! 🎉
Encore une mise à jour pour rendre le beatstep pro polyphonique 🙏 et c'est parfait !!!
Thanks for the latching transpose, which makes the transpose function work in a more intuitive way! And thanks for the firmware updates!
As a long time Arturia customer I knew times when that didn't work that well (analog factory). But with the microfreak your firmware update policy was exemplary.
I also have the microbrute and the minibrute 2 and apart from the sticky-knob-issue I love them both. I had the Beatstep pro and the original Keystep but sold them after buying the Keystep pro.
And I've got the V-Collection (since V2) that keeps being interesting and has been setting an example on the market, after which other brands began to develop synthesizer colledctions too.
All in all, after all these years I still love your gear, while my fascination for a lot of other products of other brands has declined. Thanks, Arturia!
No ratcheting or beat repeat per track still 😢
Thank you sooo much Arturia for the new program change feature included in the firmware update 2.5! This was the missing gem in this awesome device! Now it's there! Awesome!
You made my day! 🥰🤩🥳
Well done Arturia for the much needed update!🤘
A welcome update. The new chroma version looks nice.
Flawless update here with a couple of cool features I've asked and been waiting for (transpose latch, program change... ) 🤩
So 👍👍 Arturia!
Banger update! Merci Arturia
both points made very clear! brava! 😅
De très bonnes nouveautés....dommage, on ne peut toujours pas enregistrer les mouvements de pitch bend et modulation (ou alors j'ai loupé un épisode ?)
I‘ so glad I ordered the white one!
neat! If I hadn't just bought the MKIII essentials and the beatstep pro I would totally get this special edition keystep pro. Super pretty. Maybe I'll sell them to get it but we'll see. Super neat new features though.
I sold my white keystep for a black keystep recently and now the "chroma" edition is released... hahaha...
Finally full velocity 👍🏼
The keystep stand is hilarious 😂
Can the Program Change be used to scroll through presets in say Analog Lab? That would be great
Program changes are the only thing i felt I was missing. I am complete.
Ya this sounds great, if i am understanding it correctly, I can have each Part have a different sound. So if each part is a Verse, Chorus, Bridge sort of structure, I can change the preset sounds on my synth device, per part. right...
Yeah, but does yours work? 'cause mine don't.
@@RayMcNamaraMusic it was still glitchy. I returned mine. Plus the keys feel terrible.
I wonder... Will there be similar updates for KeyStep 37 ?
thank god for the program change update. that feature is vital and it's why i keep buying my same old controller when i wear it out. while i like having the MSB/LSB flexibility, having a not so buried PC change would be still so helpful. i loved the old shift + octave up/down = PC inc/dec like in old yamahas. can't for the life of me understand why something like that is so hard to do amidst all of the sophistication in modern controllers
please please add program changes to Keystep 37. There is already logic entry because it knows how to add steps to the sequencer using 1-16 keys. Love all of the sequencing features but why are these controllers dumber than the Yamaha CBX-K1 from 1995. Just let us have program change :'(
All very nice but also think about updating your other products such as the minilab 3.... thanks
Wish we could set the track one drum voices to different midi channels for each voice! Would be an easy to implement update and greatly increase Keystep Pro’s utility. I’d love to use it to trigger 6 drum multis on Virus TI2 , reserving the other 3 tracks for bass/lead/pad
Program changes are not working on mine. I've spent hours troubleshooting and I'm confident the problem is the KSP, not user error. I'm pissed.
Welcome update.
Scene chaining please!
@Arturia Does this mean that I can pattern sync my Elektron machines with the KSP? It's been a dream of mine for years but for a long time has just been lingering in a drawer with bad smelling farts
Does this update turn it into a full-size keyboard? If it does I'll finally buy one.
What studio table is that?
As a decent song mode is missing it would be nice if the KSP would also respond to incoming program changes. So not only sending them. Loading projects and changing / chaining patterns could then be done from another sequencer so the sequences on the KSP could be integrated.
Common Arturia… it has a build in sequencer, which is very usefull in a DAW-less setup. But this also needs some capabilities to ‘follow’ other hardware. So only PC out doesn’t make sense, it should also receive PC commands for changing patterns.
It doesn’t send program change to jx08 correctly- why?
Page 2 for 4 more tracks please 🤩
When I change patterns on the drum track say 1 to 2, it misses the first note
Arturia taking requests for Minibrute 2s updates? I wish I could get more note range on the pads in scale mode. Please assign each pad its own unique note in scale mode so we can get 2 octaves+ out of it! Like KORG does with the Volca modular. As of now, for the MB2s, you only get like 6 unique notes on the pads when in scale mode since there are repeat notes within the 12 note pads. Seems like a bit of an oversight, and I'd get way more use out of the velocity/pressure pads if I could condense my scales to multiple octaves with the pads. Thanks Arturia!
I want this so bad, but for $575 plus tax, I feel like I could buy a ln amazing synth instead. Wish theyd do a full size key version too.
Just get a used one on Reverb for 350 or so. Well worth it.
Mine came in brand new condition.
Record arp mode?
Does the Keystep Pro have to ability to lock to a specific key? that would be handy with the latch transpose
Yes, you can lock to a specific Key and Scale
Beautiful Elena )
Puh, I am almost happy that you didn't revamp the Arpeggiator with a rhythmic functionality, like the Uno synth Pro has (but sadly only monotimbral), though it would be the most natural and logical usage for the 16 steps in Arp mode. On and off for certain Arp steps. Now I still don't have to buy the Keystep Pro and to wonder where to find a place for it (I would have long ago, if the Arp would have the aforementioned feature). Maybe in 2025 with V3.0 ? 😉😮💨
Would be nice also to add MIDI CC independent by MIDI CH, meaning if I'm on track 4, assuming is on Midi CH 4 as well, have the ability to set CC to the 5 encoders in the same midi CH, and if you change let say to track 3 (MIDi CH also 3), the encoders can send different CC to a different implementation. That way, if you are controlling 2 or more synths, you cand send CC independently.
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why did they decided to exemplify fixed velocity on step mode? isn't velocity on step mode already fixed? btw loved the program change function!
I spoke too early... PC on the drum channel is buggy, doesn't send in realtime and made the system crash... 😢
@@pedrofreire6169 Better than me. I can't get a single program change message to come out of this damn box.
well, assuming you've already installed the firmware update, it should be as simple as going into the menu (shift+project) and entering track options, or whatever it's called. there you should see a couple of PC named options. the first one is a on/off switch which needs to be turned on, and the second one, or the one with numbers, is the one you wanna mess with. hope it helps!@@RayMcNamaraMusic
@@pedrofreire6169 Yeah, the instructions are clear. The gear doesn't fucking work.
How about showing us how to install the update?
The new program change feature is not working for me in some patterns. I updated to Firmware v. 2.5.14, but no program change, MSB or LSB data is being transmitted in some cases. I have carefully followed the instructions in the new manual, but monitoring MIDI Outs 1-4 with MIDI-OX and Borne SendSX shows that no program change, MSB or LSB data is being received, my DAW is not receiving such data and my hardware synths are not changing programs.
UPDATE 11 DEC: After doing a hard reset, program changes ARE working, but only in blank patterns. Pre-recorded patterns in saved projects do not accept program change data.
UPDATE 12 DEC: Newly recorded patterns in newly created projects DO now accept program change data. Old patterns in old projects created with the previous firmware and backed up using MIDI Control Center then imported DO NOT accept program change data.
Having a similar problem? Report it to Arturia support.
I sent a video to Arturia support (per their request) showing how this does not work. They subsequently asked for a project dump file to take a look at. Waiting to hear back from them on that. Hopefully they can find a workaround.
@@theweilfamilyArturia support has suggested that I import an old project created by an earlier firmware version and then modify it and save it in the new version (2.5.14), then try adding program change data. Have you tried that?
@@robst247 I honestly did not have any backups of projects before Arturia suggested I back up all of them and then perform a factory reset (just like you). After reading this, I went and tried re-saving some of my current projects and then adding program changes. I seemed to be able to get it to work on one of those projects, but coming back a bit later to try again, not having that luck. What they suggested to you was a bit presumptuous on their part. Obviously this is an issue, if they can't just tell us exactly what to do right away. Bad testing on their part.
@@theweilfamilyI had not thought of creating backups either until this problem occurred. There is clearly a bug in Firmware v2.5.14. Blank or newly created patterns in new projects DO accept program change data. Old patterns in old projects created with the previous firmware that were backed up using MIDI Control Center and then imported do not accept program change data. Obviously, they have a slightly different format.
Arturia will solve the problem -- no worries. Onward and upward! 😂
@@robst247 Last attempt at this... I downgraded to the previous FW, resaved, upgraded again, same problem. Thought there was going to be a chance it would work. I guess the key is having pre-upgrade saves.
Anyone else having trouble with getting program changes to work at all? I must've gone over the steps twenty times and it just is not doing anything. I've tried it with my monologue, SE-02, MS2000R and Microfreak. I'm able to send program changes to all of these from my laptop/Reason with no issue. I have to be missing something really simple.
I just tried monitoring the MIDI Outs with MIDI-OX and Borne SendSX, and whatever I do, no program change data is being transmitted. This feature seems to be broken.
@@robst247 Did you try this on existing pattern? I've since discovered that adding a program change to a new/blank pattern seems to work. Not so much on existing/pre-firmware update ones. I've been trying to get Arturia support to acknowledge that, but no luck. Does not responding mean yes?
@@theweilfamily I tried it on existing patterns and blank patterns, but no joy. I just received this potential fix from Arturia helpdesk:
Can you please try to hard reset your Keystep Pro?
The Hard reset procedure is available since firmware 1.3.2, make sure that you have this version or any higher ones to be able to perform the procedure.
/!\ Before hard resetting your Keystep Pro, to avoid any projects or configuration loss, make sure to backup your projects within the Midi Control Center.
Once done proceed as follows :
Power up the keystep pro while holding both octave + and - buttons
Click the project encoder to confirm
The Reset process would then be launched and a completion message will be displayed once the device is defaulted.
@@robst247 Lol. Yeah, that was their first suggestion to me as well. However, I just received another response from them this morning with the suggestion that I needed to save my patterns at least once (post-firmware-update) to retain the program change. I thought, okay, fair, maybe that is a step I hadn't done when testing. Eh, not so much. Didn't help at all. I wonder why I'm able to get it to work on new patterns but you are not able to? One thing I notice is that when I follow the steps and go to change the patch value (when using an empty pattern), it immediately changes the patch on the synth. So I can see it is working. When doing that step on an existing pattern, I do not get that.
@@theweilfamily I need to do some testing to see whether I can reproduce what you're describing (that program changes do work with new/blank patterns but not with prewritten patches). I'll get back to you a.s.a.p. Probably tomorrow afternoon.
Cool. Now all this needs is OSC.
About time we had a firmware update. But it's EXTREMELY underwhelming. Seriously. It took over a year to make this update? This feels more like appeasement. Least effort possible. How much more resources went into making the Chroma vs. making this firmware update? I'd bet good money that a LOT more effort was put into the Chroma.
Still waiting for things 90s synths could do. As in record pitch bend, mod wheel, and aftertouch. I can record these from my KSP into my freakin Korg Trinity. But not on the KSP itself. That's insane!
I'm not some drooling fanboi who praises and kow tows over any update. I'll call you out. And I am. This update has been a long LONG time coming, and includes things that should have been there from the very start.What the hell have you been doing that this seriously underwhelming firmware update is all the gruel you're giving us? And saying it's "free" as if that's some huge non-standard blessing. No. It's the expected and normal behavior for any company. Any and all firmware updates are free for the entire life of the product. No need to tell us it's free, cuz it damn well better be.
They have way too many products. Theyre probably running in circles cause of that
Finally, Program Change capability - 24 months after release, better late than never I guess. I wonder when the Keystep Pro II will be released?
Keystep Pro Deluxe with 8 tracks, 61 keys.
Comes first… No need for a Keystep Pro 2 when updates can still greatly expand the first one.
@@AdamsOlympia I wonder what could possibily be on the roadmap for the Keystep Pro in the next 12 to 24 months relative to "updates"? It would be nice to have a bit insight into what "might" be targetted for the next release.
I've tempered my expectations knowing that "future" products (Pro/Deluxe/II) after 12 to 24 months after release will likely not include the base capabilites found in the preceding products it replaces. Better to wait at least a year (or more) after release for the code to mature to a state of parity.
I want to marry Lena!
Yes, but you get my foot instead!
Take a cold shower.
Shit, forGET the keystep pro.
I thank you for not wearing bra 😐
Hi, I need my money back, please. The keylab 88mk2 is literally the worst midi controller I have ever owned I sincerely hate it. Whoever designed it did a very terrible job. And I want an apology letter and a check for a thousand dollars Arturia. Thanks
Basic feature update to sell old hardware in a new package on xmas 2023. Disappointing.